Mate by Fate, Bound by Love

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Ethan’s pov

I sat down, lost in thoughts. Where had it gone wrong?? I pondered on this current situation. I was the ruling Alpha, my father died three months after Lena’s departure, turns out that he had been battling with an ailment long before now.

FLASHBACK

I entered my father’s chambers and I noticed that he was pale, his countenance looked more of a sickly person than a healthy person.

If any of the wolves had told me that my father would be laying on the bed looking so sick to the point of death, only the moon goddess knows what would have happened to such person

He had been ruling the kingdom for too long, the cause of his illness was a deadly poison which was injected into his system, it is not detected at the early stage but it is detected at the later stages.

The pack doctor looked at me and sighed

“He doesn’t have much time to live” He said as he bowed his head and left my presence.

I looked at my father as my father coughed out blood, I was racking my brain, searching for anyone who was close to my father in order to plan such against him yet I found none

I did not like my father at first glance, I thought he was the one responsible for the predicament that I am right now. I was not into royalty at first because of the responsibility attached to it.

Weird….. Right??

Yeah, I was a young Alpha wolf who was not serious with life and I spent my time, playing or going for hunt, my father had tried to caution me several times but it was to no avail.

Although the main reason why I learnt how to use a sword was because I thought of it as a fun activity not necessarily because I wanted to protect a pack.

I grew up not knowing who my mother is, my father was out doing his duties as the ruling Alpha.

Right from the time I was a young wolf to this present moment, I was one who seeks for attention and loved it when I am praised for doing a particular acts.

Yet, my father did none of the two as I was always crutized, scolded and reprimanded at every slight opportunity which made me frustrated at some point.

My father saw that I was becoming unruly so he decided to send me to a pack war, I had never seen such courage that thu are wolves that are ready to die for the ones they loved.

I was pondering on this matter, although we were still at the battlefield, blood flowed like water and for the first time I was afraid of death. I looked at the brave warriors who were fighting for the peace of the pack and I felt down.

Fortunately, we won the war but we encountered many casualties. The war in which I had experienced brought out a new me as I went into rigorous training in order to be equipped to fight wars of the pack.

It just so happened that I finished my training session and I was on my way to the palace when I saw wounded wolf lying at the path in which I stood, I was angry at myself because I would have walked passed that spot of it was ages ago.Copyright by Nôv/elDrama.Org.

Blood was gushing out of the wolf leg that weakness could be seen in its countenance, it’s face looked at me, it was scared and afraid of what I could do to it.

I crouched down to its level and saw that its injuries were quite severe, I sighed, there was nothing I could do at the moment to save the wolf so I left the wolf and was walking to the palace.

I turned my eyes towards the direction of the wolf and I did not see the wolf again, taking a deep breath, I entered into the palace and realized that my father had been pierced.

I did not want to think if it had been laced with poison or not, he smiled when he saw me.

“You’re finally taking up responsibilities” He said.

I went out of the palace looking so angry and I found a perfect spot to release my anger on. After venting our my anger, I noticed that there was curious eyes studying me from where I was.

“Who are you?” I asked

The young lady bowed in front of me and said

“Lauren”

My blue eyes were scanning her as I was pondering on where she had come from, she had this innocent look and her voice was soothing the soul.

She was shaking at the spot where she bowed and I wondered if there was something wrong with her, she rose up her head to meet my blue eyes so she bowed herself to the ground.

I sighed as I looked at the display in front of me, I think all this whole fiasco is not that she was respecting me or anything but she was afraid of the one behind my back. It is said that my father is ruthless in killing all his enemies.

In my heart, I was determined to get close to Lauren in order for me to find out who she really is.

I started the plan formulation and in no time, I executed the plan. On the day of the execution, I pondered if the decision I was going to take was going to be an easy one or a hard one.

BACK TO PRESENT

Here am I, regretting that I had ever conceived the plan in the first place. I had heard this statement “Do not judge a book by its cover” I never knew what it meant until this present day.

Lauren was bad news that had ever happened to me, she was a scheming bitch who would do anything to get what she wants